Teaching English In South Korea

Interested in teaching English in South Korea? This short film, made by a teacher from the UK who spent one year working there, will give you an insight on the lifestyle and working conditions in this fascinating and dynamic country.

HAGWON 학원 = PRIVATE LANGUAGE SCHOOL

For more information contact Anna Jeon of Korea Global Connections:

kgcabc@gmail.com

or visit the KGC website:

http://www.kgcesl.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Teaching
• English
• South
• Korea
• Teach
• TEFL
• ESL
• hagwon
• Changwon
• Seoul

[t2christie]

Jesus how much did they pay you to make this video? You seriously oversaw some big problems by making a basic video. It's not about your personal experience, its an advertising campaign....People! There are alot of other things you have to consider based on my experience and many others. Academies are more like a business than a school, some offer terrible contracts which are not labour law related and some bosses try to screw you big time. You have to study the contract before you sign it!

[brandywhite]

I was paid nothing to make this video. It is true that I made it for one particular agency to use but it is not true that this agency don't care about what happens once you've started working at the school. KGC will help you throughout. I do not work for them and never have done..... but they were the agency that got me to Korea in the first place.

[StarKrazzo]

Cool video. I am thinking very strongly of teaching for a year in South Korea or Taiwan, and then using my savings to backpack some other Asian countries.

1. How exactly do you communicate with the kids if they don't know English and you don't know Korean?

2. How easy is it to meet other foreignors in Korea? Are there more at the same Hagwon? I don't wanna spend a year in Korea without anyone to hang out with.

[brandywhite]

The kids are there to learn English, so while they are at the hagwon they should only speak English. They all know some English, as they are taught it at school. There is usually other native (English) speakers working at the same hagwon and a network of foreigners you can hang out with.. stick to the cities and you should be fine. You do have to commit yourself for 12 months, however, as that is the min length of contract

[darkdecember1215]

umm do you need to know korean?

[brandywhite]

no. none at all. in fact, the hagwons ask that you only speak in English to the kids.  but outside of the classroom, it helps to get by.

[mimilasouri7]

Je rêve d'aller en Corée. C'est mon but. Je veux finir mes etudes en communication et après direction "korea". Votre vidéo me donne encore plus envie d'y aller. Je suis trop jalouse. LOL.

[KoolJayJ]

Ughhh typical, they all look like fucking losers

[Johnnystrychnine]

..a profession in education. Caucasians use it as an excuse to get a fuck, get drunk and travel around Asia. There are only about 2% out of the 45,000 or so foreigners that enter Korea each year that are true educators like me. The other issue now is that principals prefer women, frankly I don't understand how a female makes a better teacher than a male, especially a female without teaching qualifications over someone like me that is an Educator because it is my profession.

[Johnnystrychnine]

Korean Global Connections? Useless bunch of recruiters. Similar to Korean Horizons. One of the main people at the helm of Korean Horizons is a British Adolf Hitler. Most recruiters in South Korea do not know what they are doing and merely tow the line advocated to them by parents of children attending the private language institutes. Foreigners are in Korea mainly to fuck women and make a quick buck. It's full of caucasian alchoholics too. Most of them are not even interested in pursuing..cont

[brownboy252]

@PrismaMD uhh dude im black and have a paid trip to korea to teach english coming up soon...i didnt sighn up for it, my relationships whith many from korea have brought that about.

[TerribleMouton]

@TerribleMouton

and that goes to BrandyWhite too: Respect man!

[takatoekoe]

@TerribleMouton ah thx :D

[TerribleMouton]

@takatoekoe

Because learning one of the most difficult language in the world (according to scientists) ,

go there, find a job and don't be f**cking lost is kinda' epic ;)

한국 Hanguk Rocks!!!

[takatoekoe]

@TerribleMouton why? :O

[TerribleMouton]

@takatoekoe

Man, i admire you!

[takatoekoe]

i know 99% korean and 100%japanese doi have more chance to get employed in south korea?